A triple coextruded baked good having a bar shape with a desired substantially smaller height than width, is continuously produced with distinct, at least substantially uniform concentric fillings which are visually apparent at opposing cut ends of the baked piece. The bar-shaped products are preferably cookies with dissimilar fillings, such as a fruit filling and a cheese-cake filling. Undesirable excessive flow of a middle filling or layer towards the cross-sectional ends or sides rather than the top and bottom of the coextrudate is substantially reduced by obstructing and diverting the flow of the middle filling through the middle die orifice so that it flows towards the top and bottom elongated portions of the middle annulus. A baked product having a substantially even middle concentric layer which is desirably uniformly thick and continuous at least across the top and bottom is obtained. Post-extrusion shaping or mechanical flattening of the dough with a roller is not needed to obtain a desired cross sectional shape having a substantially rectangular middle portion and curved or rounded shoulders, thereby avoiding sticking and tearing of the dough. Ultrasonic cutting of the baked product is employed to avoid substantial visual smearing of one layer of filling into another.
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16. A method for producing a triple coextruded cookie bar comprising coextruding a dough and two dissimilar first and second fillings through three concentric die orifices wherein the dough is extruded through the outermost die orifice, the first filling is extruded through the innermost die orifice, and the second filling is extruded through the middle die orifice, diverting the flow of said second filling through said middle die orifice to obtain a triple coextruded rope having a middle filling with opposing sides which are substantially thicker than the remaining opposing sides of the middle filling, baking the triple coextruded rope, and cutting the baked rope into pieces having distinct, dissimilar fillings which are visually apparent at opposing ends.
1. A method for producing a triple coextruded baked snack bar having a desired substantially smaller height than width comprising producing a triple coextruded rope by coextruding a dough and two dissimilar first and second fillings through three concentric die orifices wherein the dough is extruded through the outermost die orifice, the first filling is extruded through the innermost die orifice, and the second filling is extruded through the middle die orifice, obstructing the flow of said second filling so as to obtain a more uniform annular thickness of said second filler in the triple coextruded rope, baking the triple coextruded rope, and cutting the baked rope into pieces having distinct, dissimilar fillings which are visually apparent at opposing ends.
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14. A method as claimed in 3 wherein the pins are located in cross-sectional end regions of a middle annulus so that the flow of the second filling is directed to cross-sectional elongated top and bottom regions of the middle annulus.
15. A method as claimed in 14 wherein the pins are located a distance upstream the terminus of the middle annulus which is equal to about 1 to 2.5 times the middle annulus width at the terminus.
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20. A method as claimed in 16 wherein the flow of said second filling is diverted from cross-sectional end regions of a middle annulus so that the flow of the second filling is directed to cross-sectional elongated top and bottom regions of the middle annulus.
21. A method as claimed in 16 wherein obstructions are located in cross-sectional end regions of a middle annulus so that the flow of the second filling is directed to cross-sectional elongated top and bottom regions of the middle annulus.
22. A method as claimed in 21 wherein the obstructions are located a distance upstream the terminus of the middle annulus which is equal to about 1 to 2.5 times the middle annulus width at the terminus.
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This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) of provisional application U.S. Ser. No. 60/456,454, filed Mar. 21, 2003 in the name of McHugh et al, for “Production of Triple Coextruded Baked Bar Goods,” the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
This invention relates to the production of bar-shaped baked goods having two visually apparent fillings using triple coextrusion.
In the mass production of snack foods or other food products, the extrusion process may be employed because it economically provides a high volume of product having a uniform configuration and structure. Usually, when designing an extrusion process and/or apparatus, the desired properties of the end product must be considered along with the processing characteristics of the individual components that make up the product. Often, these considerations may require the use of a specific method and/or apparatus to achieve a particular result.
In the design of mass production facilities for the coextrusion of snack products, flow properties such as viscosity, handling properties or other processing characteristics of a particular material stream must be factored in. Certain material streams may be sensitive to variations in flow rate or direction caused by a circuitous flow path or obstacles in the flow path. Problems may arise such as high back pressure, insufficient mass flow rate and non-uniformity of individual layers in the product.
Certain materials may require an extremely smooth and uninterrupted flow path in order to remain either in an integral flow stream or a divided flow stream which is easily reformed into an integral one. If a change of direction occurs or an obstacle is present in the flow path, reformation may be difficult to achieve because the discrete streams may not reunite to form a uniform, integral flow. In this instance, the resultant product may have unacceptable qualities such as seam lines or striations.
In other instances, smooth flow paths for the individual streams may be required to prevent back pressure in pumps and related equipment and low mass flow rates, especially for viscous materials.
Also, coextrusion apparatus often have many potential leak points, due to their multiple parts, complex configurations and high operating pressures. As the number of concentric layers increase in a coextrudate, for example when three or more layers are desired, die complexity increases quite rapidly. Generally, more parts are needed, flow paths become disrupted by inlet passages, more potential leak points are created, tolerances in the concentric passageways become tighter, flow path directions change more frequently or abruptly, and back pressures increase. These problems tend to become even more exacerbated as the desired final diameter of the coextrudate rope and final product decreases. In producing coextrudate ropes wherein one or more concentric layers expand upon exiting the extrusion die, the concentric passageways must be even smaller in diameter to achieve a desired final coextrudate rope diameter. For example, when coextruding a plurality of fillers with an expandable farinaceous-based cooked casing, from a cooker extruder, the casing may expand substantially upon exiting the triple coextrusion die. The outer concentric passage for the casing, and hence the remaining inner passageways for the fillings must be sized substantially smaller than the desired diameter of the expanded final product.
After the extrusion step, certain food or snack products are sometimes shaped in a manner to make them more aesthetically pleasing and/or bite-size. This usually requires post-extrusion processing by way of, for example, a candy making machine which severs the rope into individual pieces having the shape of the individual molds of the candy machine. In the instances where this type of post-extrusion processing is used, the extrudate rope to be fed into the post-extrusion step should have a diameter substantially the same size as the diameter of the final product or the mold. Matching of the diameters helps to avoid the production of excessive scrap during the continuous molding operation. For example, if a peanut shell-shaped expanded snack product is desired, the expanded extrudate rope should be substantially the same in diameter as the diameter of the final peanut product. The final product diameter may be relatively small if simulation of an actual peanut shell size or bite-size pieces are desired.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,715,803 and 4,748,031 to Koppa disclose an extruder which provides a triple coextruded product having an inner layer, which is surrounded, or enrobed, by an intermediate layer, which is surrounded, or enrobed, by a third outer-most layer. The inner layer is a dough having a chewy and moist texture when baked and the outer layer is a dough having a crispy texture after baking. These patents relate specifically to the introduction of a barrier material between the two dough layers in order to achieve the desired product stability and shelf life. The moisture barrier is injected through the outer cylindrical layer in a tube upstream of the extruder outlet.
A pillow-shaped product, having an outer layer of expanded dough and two different filler materials is disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,698,004 and 4,888,192 to Ramnarine. The penetration of the outer expansible dough by the inner fillers in the end product is avoided through the use of a nozzle which can be adjusted to compensate for the effects of the fluid flow of the individual streams. The process is directed to the side-by-side extrusion of the filler materials.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,241,503 to Schafer discloses a die for the manufacture of cookies with concentric rings of different colored dough. The process involves introducing successive layers of dough through conduits perpendicular to the die into annular cavities surrounding a longitudinally extending bore.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,834,999 to Matthews et al discloses triple coextruding a meat-based product comprising whole muscle body surrounding a core stuffing, an outer casing, and an annular layer of fat between the whole-muscle body and the outer casing.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,686,128 to Tracey et al discloses the production of a triple coextruded snack having a casing material which may be a dough or an expansible dough such as a cookie dough, or cracker dough enrobing two fillers. The triple coextrusion apparatus includes a unitary die block for all three materials and has smooth and uninterrupted flow paths. A small diameter extrudate rope is produced with a central filler enrobed by an outer filler, subsequently enrobed by an outer casing formed from multiple streams. The outer casing material streams reform into an integral concentric layer having no or substantially no seam lines or striations in the outer casing. The extrudate ropes may be sufficiently small in diameter, even when the casing is expanded, to allow feeding into a candy machine for shaping by molding or crimping to produce small diameter snack products without substantial waste or scrap material.
Japanese Patent Publication No. 60-070036, published Apr. 20, 1985, discloses production of three-layered soft food by extruding a core layer, interlayer, and outer layer at the same time to mold a three-layered cylindrical material, rolling the material while cut into a given size using a cutting and rolling means, and molding the material.
Coextrusion is also used to manufacture multi-layered plastic articles. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,185,954 to Murakami, et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,318,417 to Kopp, et al., and U.S. Pat. No. 5,324,187 to Cook describe apparatus and processes for manufacturing multilayered tubular or hollow plastic products where each outer layer is successively added downstream to surround the upstream added inner material or materials.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,125,585 to Rosenbaum, U.S. Pat. No. 4,731,002 to Spence, et al., and U.S. Pat. No. 4,846,648 to Spence, et al. describe method and apparatus for manufacturing multilayered plastic pipe where the inner layer is injected across the central layer and through a spider.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,364,882 to Doucet describes method and apparatus for manufacturing multilayered plastic pipe where the central layer is injected across the outer layer through a trefoil.
German patent DT 3044535 (published Jun. 24, 1982) describes method and apparatus for manufacturing multilayered plastic pipe where one or two central layers are injected across the outer layer.
In producing an extruded baked good having a desired bar shape, such as a FIG NEWTON®, configuring die orifices to the same bar shape or cross-section desired for the baked good can result in an extruded, unbaked dough with the desired shape. However, the dough rope shape or cross-section may change substantially during baking due to oven spread resulting in an undesirable baked good shape, such as a baked product which is too thin. The shape of the die orifices may be changed, for example to increase the height of the extruded dough rope so that upon baking the extrudate rope spreads into the thinner desired shape. However, it has been found that the use of concentric, circular die orifices to produce a cylindrical dough rope results in insufficient oven spread to produce a desirable, bar-shaped baked good.
It has also been found that in producing a baked, bar-shaped product having a plurality of concentric fillings, which are visually apparent at each end of the bar, the use of a roller to flatten a cylindrical dough rope to achieve a desired bar shape results in sticking of the outer dough casing to the roller and tearing of the dough rope and base cake. Also, it has been found that in producing a triple coextruded dough rope having a cross-section with a substantially smaller height than width, without the use of a roller, the middle layer or filling tends to flow towards the ends rather than the top and bottom. The resulting baked product tends to have a substantially uneven middle concentric layer which is excessively thin or discontinuous at the top and bottom, particularly as the cross-sectional height to width ratio of the dough rope decreases.
Also, as the height or thickness of the dough rope decreases along with the thickness of the filler layers, cutting of the baked rope tends to result in more visual smearing of one layer of filling into another.
The present invention provides a method for producing a triple coextruded baked good having a bar shape with a substantially smaller height than width, such as a FIG NEWTON® shaped product, without the need for post-extrusion shaping or mechanical flattening of the dough with a roller, thereby avoiding sticking and tearing of the dough by the shaping equipment. Triple coextruded bar shaped products such as cookies with dissimilar fillings, such as a fruit filling and a cheese-cake filling, may be continuously produced on a mass production basis. The present invention provides for the production of baked goods having distinct, at least substantially uniform concentric fillings which are visually apparent at opposing cut ends of the baked piece. Undesirable excessive flow of a middle filling or layer towards the cross-sectional ends or sides rather than the top and bottom of the coextrudate is substantially reduced. Control of the flow of the middle filling results in a baked product having a substantially even middle concentric layer which is desirably uniformly thick and continuous at least across the top and bottom. Cutting of the baked product is accomplished without any substantial visual smearing of one layer of filling into another.
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for the production of a baked good or snack in bar form having a cross sectional width that is substantially greater than the cross-sectional height using triple coextrusion. In embodiments of the invention, the ratio of the maximum cross-sectional width to the maximum cross-sectional height of the baked good may be at least about 1.75:1, generally at least about 2.5:1, for example from about 2.7 to 4:1, preferably about 3:1. The snack bar, such as a cookie may be baked from a triple coextruded rope having a casing, such as a cookie dough enrobing two concentric fillers.
The triple coextruded rope may be produced by coextruding a dough and two dissimilar first and second fillings through three concentric die orifices wherein the dough is extruded through the outermost die orifice, the first filling or core is extruded through the innermost die orifice, and the second or middle filling is extruded through the middle die orifice.
Undesirable excessive flow of the middle or second filling or layer towards the cross-sectional ends rather than the top and bottom of the coextrudate is substantially reduced by diverting and constricting or obstructing the flow of the second or middle filling through the middle die orifice so that it flows towards the top and bottom elongated portions of the middle annulus. The diversion or obstruction results in an extrudate rope and a baked product having a substantially even middle concentric layer which is desirably uniformly thick and continuous at least across the top and bottom. The middle concentric layer may be thicker or substantially the same width-wise at its opposing end portions compared to its thickness height-wise at its top and bottom portions.
The diversion or obstruction may be achieved with the use of pins located in the middle annulus, extending or protruding from the outer wall of the middle annulus towards the inner wall of the middle annulus. The pins help to increase pressure in the thicker end regions of the middle annulus and direct flow of the middle layer or second filler to the thinner top and bottom regions of the middle annulus thereby preventing unevenness and discontinuity in the top and bottom regions.
Substantial visual smearing of one filler layer, such as a red colored cherry filling, into the other, such as a white cheese-cake filling, and vice verse is avoided or eliminated by cutting of the baked product preferably with an ultrasonic cutter.
The present invention provides a method for producing a triple extrusion, or triple coextruded baked good having a bar shape with a substantially smaller height than width. For example, the ratio of the maximum cross-sectional width to the maximum cross-sectional height of the baked good may be at least about 1.75:1, generally at least about 2.5:1, for example from about 2.7 to 4:1, preferably about 3:1. Post-extrusion shaping or mechanical flattening of the triple extruded product with a roller is not needed prior to or after baking to achieve an oblong or curved rectangle cross-sectional shape in a triple coextruded baked snack. Elimination of mechanical shaping and relying solely upon oven spread to achieve a desired cross-sectional profile in the baked good avoids sticking and tearing of the outer dough or casing by the post extrusion shaping equipment. Triple coextruded bar shaped products such as cookies with dissimilar concentric fillings, such as a fruit filling which enrobes or envelops a cheese-cake filling, may be continuously produced on a mass production basis.
A triple coextruded baked cookie snack which may be produced by triple extrusion in accordance with the present invention is shown in
The core or first filler 5 has a substantially uniform thickness or height 25 across its width 27 as shown in
The baked snacks such as the cookie snack product 1 of
In a preferred embodiment, to obtain a baked good 1 having a maximum cross-sectional width 43 to maximum cross-sectional height 44 ratio of about 3:1, the corresponding ratios for the three concentric die orifices 54, 56, and 58 may be about 1.8:1 (outermost or casing orifice), 3.8:1 (innermost or core orifice), and 2.4:1 (middle orifice), respectively. The increased ratio (3:1) for the baked product compared to the ratio for the outermost die orifice 54 (1.8:1) is substantially attributed to oven spread and lay-time on conveyor belts rather than any mechanical flattening with a roller or other flattening means.
Undesirable excessive flow of the middle or second filling or layer towards the cross-sectional ends rather than the top and bottom of the triple coextrudate is substantially reduced by diverting and constricting or obstructing the flow of the second or middle filling through the middle die orifice 58 so that it flows towards the top and bottom elongated portions 60, 62, respectively of the middle annulus 64. The diversion or obstruction results in an extrudate rope and a baked product having a substantially even middle concentric layer which is desirably uniformly thick and continuous at least across the top and bottom. The middle concentric layer may be thicker or substantially the same width-wise at its opposing end portions compared to its thickness height-wise at its top and bottom portions.
The diversion or obstruction may be achieved with the use of pins 66, 67 located in the middle annulus 64 as shown in
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The middle nozzle 75 of the extrusion block 50 for extrusion of the middle filler or second layer of the baked good of
The central or core nozzle 90 of the extrusion block 50 for extrusion of the core or first filler of the baked good of
The outer or casing nozzle 92 of the extrusion block 50 for extrusion of the dough or casing layer of the baked good of
In a preferred embodiment, the core or central nozzle is fabricated as a single or integral piece as shown in FIGS. 14 and 14A-14E.
The die blocks 50 may be employed with conventional coextruders such as those manufactured by Meinke, APV, and Rheon Manufacturing Co. A Meinke V45 triple coextruder is preferred. In embodiments of the invention, the triple coextruder and up to about 20 die blocks 50 may be employed to produce up to about 20 rows of triple coextruded dough ropes having consistent weights from row to row.
In accordance with preferred embodiments of the present invention, the triple coextruded dough rope containing the two fillers surrounded by an unbaked, unleavened cookie dough may be transported by conveyers to an oven and baked using conventional baking temperatures and times to obtain a baked dough rope which may be cut into desired bar size lengths, for example from about 1 inch to about 6 inches. In preferred embodiments, the baked dough ropes are cut into squares, or into rectangles which are about 1⅝ in. long and about 1.5 inches wide.
Cutting of the dough ropes with a conventional gang traveling cutter tends to smear one filler into another. In preferred embodiments, the baked dough ropes may be cut using fluid jet cutting, and most preferably with an ultrasonic cutter. Commercially available ultrasonic cutters may be employed to avoid or substantially eliminate substantial visual smearing of one filler layer, such as a red colored cherry filling, into the other, such as a white cheese-cake filling, and vice verse.
Any conventional filler materials for a snack product may be used as the core or first filler and the middle or second filler in the present invention. The fillers may be cooked or uncooked and are preferably bakeable without undergoing leakage or bleed out from the cut ends of the baked product. The two fillers may preferably have substantially the same viscosity but substantially different color, flavor, texture, or combinations thereof. In embodiments of the invention the fillers may comprise jelly, peanut butter, jam, chocolate, or a filling made from fruit, vegetable, meat, candy, cooked dough, pudding, caramel, spices or seasonings such as cinnamon, cheese, cheesecake or other edible filler materials, and mixtures thereof. The fillings may optionally include particulate material or chunks, for example chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, or other flavor chips, chunks of nuts, pieces of fruits such as apple, cherry, peach, or banana, raisins, chunks of vegetables, candy or the like. Preferred combinations are: 1) a cheesecake core filling and a surrounding cherry middle filling, 2) a cream core filling and a surrounding strawberry middle filling, and 3) a caramel core filling and a surrounding apple middle filling. In other preferred embodiments, one filler may be a peanut butter filler and the other may be a jelly or chocolate filler. In other embodiments, one filler may be an apple filler with apple particulates and the other filler may comprise caramel and cinnamon.
The casing material may be a conventional leavenable snack dough, such as a cookie dough which may undergo insubstantial expansion or leavening upon extrusion and substantial or little spread upon baking. The casing material may also comprise an expansible dough. The doughs employed are preferably uncooked or substantially ungelatinized prior to entry into the triple coextrusion die.
McHugh, Edward Kevin, Profita, Robert John, Critchley, Jill Margaret, Remily, Nicole
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